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Across the country, artificial intelligence tools are changing the teaching profession as educators use them to help write ...

This paper proposes an automatic road-sign recognition method based on image segmentation and joint transform correlation (JTC) with the integration of shape analysis. The presented system is ...

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a ...

This internship inspired me to pursue a career in economic research. Since then, I have been on the mission to contribute to evidence-based policymaking—one that has taken me to many different places ...